Peter Ndiforchu

Helping Non-Technical Professionals Build Data-Driven Careers That Travel Globally | Data Career Strategist | Principal Data Analyst @ Autodesk

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

About

I help immigrants and career-switchers land analyst roles—without burning out on certificates. By day I build decision-grade analytics (currently at Autodesk). By night I run Data Career Compass, where we treat your job search like a product launch: Market → Positioning → Portfolio → Distribution → Interviews. My POV: Most candidates try to add more tools. Winners learn to package their value. Your portfolio isn’t a gallery; it’s a sales page for your judgment. Receipts: → Professionals land interviews by aligning projects to business outcomes (not toy datasets). → My frameworks have been used across finance, tech, and education to translate experience into results. → Built data products and controls in regulated environments (RBC Capital Markets) that leaders rely on daily. What you’ll get here: → Weekly breakdowns of real projects (SQL, Python, dbt, DuckDB, Looker/Tableau/Power BI). → Storytelling patterns that turn insights into action. → Templates that remove friction: portfolio briefs, stakeholder one-pagers, interview scorecards. Coming June: I’m launching a coaching program designed for mid-level and senior professionals ready to transition into analytics. This isn’t an entry-level bootcamp—it’s a career accelerator that helps you reposition your existing experience, communicate business value, and step confidently into data-driven roles. Work with me: ↳ Cohorts + 1:1 coaching → DM “HIRED” ↳ April program for mid/senior professionals → DM “JUNE” for early access ↳ Guest workshops for teams and communities → DM “WORKSHOP” I build analysts who think like product managers and communicate like consultants.

Experience

  • Autodesk (Remote)
    • Principal Data Analyst, Data Analytics
      Jun 2026 - Present · 1 mo

    • Senior Data Analyst
      Aug 2025 - Present · 11 mos

      Working on cutting edge technology - Augmented and Virtual Reality (XR) - for Architecture, Engineering, & Construction (AEC) industry and leveraging data to improve product features and understand customer usage patterns. --- - Built FY26 OKR analytics for Commercial MAU and ARR, defining robust cohort logic and executive-ready semantic layers to size and track product feature impact. - Engineered the Commercial MAU backend with 3 user cohorts, MoM growth, and rigorous dbt tests, moving beyond insights to deliver a durable data product for leadership visibility. - Designed and shipped retention and account expansion dashboards, uncovering root-cause gaps in feature adoption and adding clear visibility into renewal and growth opportunities to directly influence the product roadmap.

  • Founder & Data Career Coach at Data Achievers
    Jul 2022 - Present · 4 yrs

    Helping career professional find meaningful opportunities in data analytics and achieve their dream career goals.

  • RBC Capital Markets (Hybrid)
    • Senior Data Analyst
      Dec 2024 - Aug 2025 · 9 mos

      - Lead the requirements gathering and creation of data quality rules for a new regulatory initiative (T+1). - Manage 2 contract workers in drafting requirements, reviewing data lineage and creating be-spoke data quality rules across multiple quality dimensions. - Built a Tableau report all data quality controls created with meta-data on schema and other useful data elements to help reduce the time in the drafting of new data controls by 20% - Built a Python script to Extract Deeply Nested JSON from S3 and Tranform into a CSV format for easy processing and analysis. (Avg size of data set is 1.2GB across 10 different instances with over 10 different critical data elements)

    • Data Analyst
      Jun 2022 - Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos

      • Resolved a data quality issue of missing maturity dates on outstanding loans with a material impact of 122 billion USD. • Collaborated with finance and regulatory reporting stakeholders to implement business requirements, resulting in a 25% increase in data quality and adherence to compliance guidelines as part of an enhanced enterprise data governance framework. • Utilized Tableau to create an intuitive schema and data quality report, leading to a 35% enhancement in departmental rule design efficiency at RBC Capital Markets. • Engineered data pipeline processes using Airflow and Python, reducing data processing times by 30% for faster insights delivery and improved efficiency in strategic decision-making. • Collaborated with Regulatory Reporting and Finance IT stakeholders to enhance data quality and efficiency using DBT, resulting in a 25% reduction in data-related errors. • Developed SQL data models on a cloud data warehouse and administered a Dremio data lake, handling over 10TB of data.

  • Analytics Engineer Consultant at Harlem Labs
    Jun 2022 - Jun 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    - Built self-serve Looker dashboards to support product and business stakeholders, reducing data team dependency by 20% through scalable data models and reliable data pipelines, showcasing pipeline development expertise and application of data insights for infrastructure. - Led a Looker project supporting Finance and Operations teams that increased monthly sales targets by 25% by designing a sales forecast dashboard to rapidly inform Sales and Go-To-Market teams, emphasizing the go-to-market strategy and scalability. - Boosted data accuracy and retrieval speed by 25% using dbt and optimized Snowflake schemas for better data reliability and scalable data solutions, focusing on orchestration tools and maintenance, and leveraging big-picture thinking in analytics. - Proactively identified trends in user behavior, providing insights that informed product development, resulting in a 15% improvement in user experience metrics and better alignment with business requirements through quantitative analysis and data manipulation.

  • Skill Coach at TALENT™ (Ontario Tech Talent)
    Mar 2023 - Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos